Tag: bug

• Dispatches from Somewhere #1: What a Wasp

  

  I’ve had this picture on my camera roll for almost a year now and I figured I should finally get to posting it. If you’re wondering what this scorpion looking flying insect is, it’s the Pelecinus polyturator, a type of wasp. The adults drink nectar and are pretty harmless, unless you’re a June Bug. That’s […]

  Devon Bowker

  March 28, 2021

  The Wild Life Blog

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• Is it a Worm? Is it a Wasp? No! It’s the Elm Sawfly!

  

  This past weekend as I sat below an old oak tree while drinking my morning cup of coffee and looking out on a glassy Lake Darling in Alexandria, Minnesota, something fell from the sky and landed at my feet. Small and curled up like a slightly puff green and yellow sour gummy worm. It’s face […]

  Devon Bowker

  August 14, 2019

  Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

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• The Electric-Light-Loving, Scuba-Diving, Toe-Biting, Giant Water Bug

  

  Toe-Biter, Electric-Light Bug, Alligator-Tick; people have come up with many names for the fascinating critter. It’s actual name is perhaps the most boring—the Giant Water Bug. They are the largest of the ‘true bugs’ and belong to the Belostomatidae family of insects.

  Devon Bowker

  June 2, 2018

  Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

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